On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 21:28:55 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > However, the FSF was usccesful to enforce the release of source code under > the terms of the GPL because of this in the past, so nobody seems to take > the risk. (For example, ncftp was linked with libreadline).
ncftp is developed by a small (single-person?) company, which probably doesn't have the resources to fight the GPL. IMO, there is a much more telling examples in the case of a big company; quoting http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html: :Consider GNU Objective C. NeXT initially wanted to make this front end :proprietary; they proposed to release it as .o files, and let users link :them with the rest of GCC, thinking this might be a way around the GPL's :requirements. But our lawyer said that this would not evade the :requirements, that it was not allowed. And so they made the Objective C :front end free software. Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden.